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Penn State Wilkes-Barre Surveying Engineering Department will hold a Surveying Engineering Open House at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre Surveying Engineering graduates have a 100 percent employment rate in surveying engineering firms. This is the only Penn State campus and Pennsylvania institution to offer an accredited bachelor's degree in surveying engineering.

The open house is an opportunity to learn about types of surveying and the dual degree option with civil engineering, as well as observe and participate in surveying technology demonstrations, meet surveying students, alumni and faculty, and tour the campus.

Register online at wb.psu.edu/admissions/admevents, by calling 675-9238 or by emailing wbadmissions@psu.edu. For information, contact Rachel Rybicki, marketing communication specialist, at 675-9269 or rrybicki@psu.edu.

Friends of the Mary Kintz Bevevino Library at Misericordia University will present the lecture, "Importance of Keeping Records for Libraries and National Archives,'' by William J. Bosanko, chief operating officer for the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., at 4:30 p.m. April 16 in the Catherine Evans McGowan Room of the library. A free reception follows.

Bosanko previously served as the National Archives' executive for agency services, assessing records management needs of federal agencies and representing the public interest in the accountability and transparency of records. He also oversaw many National Archives offices, including the Office of the Chief Records Officer, the nationwide Federal Records Centers, the Office of Government Information Services, the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), and the National Declassification Center.

He directed ISOO for three years, overseeing the government-wide security classification system and National Industrial Security Program. He also served on the Presidential Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information.

Bosanko holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Susquehanna University.

For information, call Susan Lazur at 674-6225.

The issue of globalization will be examined by a variety of speakers, from scholars and students to community members and corporate presidents, as part of the 2013 Global Landscapes Conference at King's College on April 17-18.

The conference will feature 75- to 90-minute presentation sessions from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. both days in the Snyder Conference Room, third floor of the Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center, between North Main and Franklin streets. The conference also will include student research presentations.

Dr. Kim Lamberty, a senior program adviser at Catholic Relief Services and president of the non-profit Just Haiti, will present "Lessons from the Field," as the keynote address at 7 p.m. April 17 in the Burke Auditorium, William G. McGowan School of Business, North River Street, Wilkes-Barre. The presentation will discuss how outside groups can best intervene during crisis to serve communities in need.

Lamberty has been developing and managing faith-based justice, peace, cross-cultural, and community service programs for nearly 20 years. She has worked with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Colombia and Palestine and on the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent migrant deaths.

The conference, "Crisis, Cooperation, and Change," is chaired by Dr. Bindu Vyas, associate professor of international business and management at King's.

King's Global Landscapes Conference is sponsored by the McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, Northeastern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center and the William G. McGowan School of Business. For information on Lamberty's lecture, contact Dr. Bernard Prusak, director, McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, at 208-5900, ext. 5689.

Registration information may be obtained by contacting Dr. Vyas at 208-5900, ext. 5787, or at www.kings.edu/GLC.

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